MANN, WILFRID• 327ceeding will enable us to build up a reserve of ready leads, which can be
developed, as the need arises, into trustworthy and active agents.In response to the Center’s wish to ‘‘keep a regular account,’’ Mally
entrusted the task toscott.MALONE, CECIL L’ESTRANGE.The Communist MP for East
Leyton from 1918 to 1922, and then the Labour MP for Northampton
from 1928 to 1931, Colonel Cecil Malone pioneered flying seaplanes
off warships and in 1918 was appointed the first air attache ́to Paris.
He was also a committed revolutionary and was arrested in October
1920 as a FinnishCominternagent, Eriski Weltheim, left his home.
Malone was sentenced to six months’ imprisonment.
MALTA.Between 1929 and 1936, Malta was the subject of attempts
by the Italian intelligence services to undermine the pro-British ad-
ministration and seize the island.MI5’s deputy director-general,Sir
Eric Holt-Wilson, played a significant but secret role in preventing
the spread of Maltese influence.
MALTA MISSION. Special Operations Executive’s mission to
Maltawas established in 1941 to act as a forward base for operations
intoItalyandYugoslavia, but then concentrated on operations in
Vichy-administered Tunisia untilbrandonwas dispatched in Octo-
ber 1942. In March 1943 control over Malta was switched from
Cairotomassingham.
MANN, WILFRID.In October 1948, Dr. Mann, a scientist working at
the Chalk River atomic establishment in Canada who had been edu-
cated at St. Paul’s and Imperial College and studied in Copenhagen
underNiels Bohr, was appointed the Britishscientific intelligence
liaison officer with theCentral Intelligence Agency(CIA) with the
rank of scientific attache ́at the British embassy. Before his appoint-
ment he was briefed byEric Welshin London, thesecurity liaison
officerin Washington, D.C., Geoffrey Paterson, and theSecret Intel-
ligence Servicestation commander,Peter Dwyer. When Dwyer was
replaced byKim Philbyin 1949, Mann became friendly with him
and occupied an office in the embassy in the same corridor. In 1951
Mann, who had served on theMaud Committeein 1941, accepted